SF Reader – Q&A with Robert Beatty, author of Willa of the Wood and the Serafina Book Series 1. What inspires your writing the most? I’m the father of three girls, so I enjoy writing stories for them and with them about brave and unusual girls with heroic hearts. In the …
What inspired you to create the Monstertown Mystery series? As kids, my best friend Billy and I were serious monster lovers. I had the hand-painted models of Frankenstein’s Monster, Wolfman, and the Mummy, and we knew every Universal monster movie by heart. In fact, the first book I ever wrote …
By CrystalWizard What inspired you the most to write The Adventurers Guild? Nick: We were most directly inspired by our experiences playing Dungeons & Dragons. We only started playing about a decade ago, but we were instantly obsessed with it, going so far as to write elaborate back-stories and detailed …
As you bring the Hunter story line to a close, are you feeling sad that it’s over or are you happy to have finished? And why? I’m sad that it’s over. I really enjoyed doing this story, and it was a great change from my usual high-fantasy setting. Joy is …
When did you start writing? Around age seven or eight, I had a teacher who asked me to write a one-page story. I thought this was impossible, so she dialed it back to half a page. I wrote with really big cursive, so my story was probably three sentences long–but …
How old were you when you started writing? The first thing I remember writing was a story back in the third grade. It was around Halloween and we were all supposed to draw a monster for class. I drew mine, but more or less on my own, I wrote up …
Interview by Crystalwizard London resident Jennifer Bell began working in children’s books as a specialist bookseller at Foyles, Charing Cross Road, one of the world’s most famous bookstores. After having the privilege of listening to children talk about their favorite books for many years, she started writing a book of …
Which author has inspired you most in your career? JRR Tolkien, of course. Writers from the Golden Age of science-fiction – Asimov, Zelazny, Bradbury, Blish – who inspired my love of the different and wonder-ful worlds. And Charles Palliser, who wrote a brilliant book called The Quincunx, to which The …
An Interview With Greg Beatty by Daniel Blackston There’s something Saturnine about the state of short spec-fiction and all of its related fields, here, in the early twenty-first century. Perhaps, all short fiction writers (many or most of whom are also aspiring novelists) suffer similar hardships: sparse, under-paying markets, a …
